Story County (Iowa); History; Biography; Iowa Agricultural College
Biographical and historical memoirs of Story County, Iowa. Comprising a condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the same, a descriptive history of the county named herein, and numerous selected...
The History of Dubuque County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, its Cities, Towns, &
Biographical Sketches of Citizens, War Record of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and...
Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923 ; Travel ; Rome (Italy)
Continues from "An Afternoon in Italy" describing the family's time in Rome in 1892 including visits to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Colosseum, soldiers marching by the Arch of Constantine, Porta del Popolo, various fountains and churches, and...
VEISHEA; Student Activities; Chemical Engineering; Iowa State University
A 1937 VEISHEA parade float from the Department of Chemical Engineering. ""Products of Corn."" Three men on the float showing various equipment that help produce corn products such as meal, syrup, rayon, and wall board.
Exploration; Travel; Central America; Panama; Darien
Box 1: folder 9, Source Material Relating to Richard A. Tewkesbury’s trips to the Darien in 1939 and 1940. Tewkesbury's published writings included in these materials are: “There’s Drama In Mexico”; “An Explorer Sets Forth”; “Darien...
Iowa State University; University Library; Card catalogs
A drawer of the author-title catalog is pulled out, with more catalog cabinets and tables in the background, and bibliographies on shelves on the wall.
Iowa State University; Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
An almost bare Chemical laboratory has several doorways leading to other rooms. Along one section of the wall is a free standing exhibit entitled at the top: ""Chemistry and Engineering at work."" Along the bottom are the words, "" DuPont better...
A chemistry lecture class being conducted in the stadium lecture hall within the Chemistry Building (now Gilman Hall). A lecturer stands behind a long demonstration counter at the front of the class. A large periodic chart is on the wall above the...
A chemistry laboratory session. Twelve young men and women are working at their individual work stations. A row of fume hoods is against the back wall between large windows. Common laboratory apparatus can be seen throughout the laboratory.
A chemistry student at work in a laboratory. Dressed in a white lab coat, the student is standing before a distillation apparatus with a wall of reagents on shelves behind the equipment.
A technician hand-making a piece of laboratory glassware with a torch for heat. Holding a piece of glass rod stock in the torch with one hand, the technician is modifying the glass tube by touching it with a glass rod in the flame. Glass lab ware...
